Marvel Tales #127

Dates

Cover date

October 1954

Pages

36

Editions and covers

• Original edition

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Creators

Stories

• Vampires Also Die · 5 pages

  A vampire jealous of his brother's prowess bargains with a witch to kill him. He is gleeful when he returns to his parents with the news his brother has been slain, thinking their attention will focus only on him. They burst into tears stating they have lost two sons this night. They explain that a blood disorder causes him to need more blood than usual and his brother was strong enough to provide transfusions while he slept, not wanting him to feel like an invalid. Out of shame the vampire kills himself with a tree limb.

• A Thing of Evil · 2 pages
• Buried Alive! · 5 pages

  A magician gets his romantically-minded assistant out of the way by locking her in a safe and dumping it in the river so that she drowns as water leaks in. To celebrate his marriage to a wealthy society lady he has himself buried in a coffin with instructions to his new assistant to tunnel beneath the coffin so he can open a latch and escape through it. The assistant is doped with knockout drops by the zombie drowned girl. She pulls the magician out of the coffin into her dark embrace.

• He Walks Through Walls · 4 pages

  When a bank president receives a shock in his bathroom which renders his body intangible he decides to rob his own bank. The effect wears off right as his body is intersecting the bank vault door.

• Skrak's Secret! · 4 pages

  An envious artist wishes to learn how a painter paints the grotesque figures that he does so he sneaks into the studio and surprises the man in his work. He reveals that he paints from live models as he uncorks a jar of ether and lays out implements of plastic surgery.

• Gone Is the Gargoyle · 5 pages

  A gargoyle disguises himself as a policeman to marry a human girl. He turns a blind eye as his brethren kill humans, but when they attack his wife, he is forced to kill one. Another gargoyle reveals to the girl that she is married to one of their own, and her exposed husband takes his life in shame.

Reprinted in

Spellbound (1960), Mystic (1960)